Black and Yellow Power: The Intersections of Identity Politics and Literary Study

"For example, the first chapter, ""Who('s)(e) Fanon: Black and Yellow Power and American Appropriations of Colonialism,"" decodes academic and political appropriations of Fanon and repositions him as a node for Black and Asian American ideological cooperation. These appropriations of colonialism through Fanon led to the development of what I call the ""guerilla aesthetic."" This guerilla posture or relationship to American colonialism, proved useful as a location for launching political and social critiques of American culture. While this position was first thought of as a political one, the figure of the armed, guerilla fighter soon came to denote a generalized antagonistic relationship towards American society signified by changes in dress, hair, and other cultural practices. This slippage, I argue, is a result of conflations of revolutionary and cultural nationalism which eventually stripped the figure of its ideological and political specificity, leaving this counter-hegemonic identity open to cooptation."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Watkins, Rychetta N.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Parker, Robert Dale

• Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3182420

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/81414